The non-parliamentary Most-Híd party does not agree with the intentions of the proponents of the law on the Minority Cultural Fund (KKA), as well as with the content of the legislation, which it views as a curtailment of cultural autonomy.
László Sólymos (in our photo), the chairman of the Most-Híd party, therefore turns to President Zuzana Čaputová.
TASR news agency was informed about this by party spokesperson Klára Magdeme on Tuesday. Sólymos asks the head of state to refer the law back to the parliament for renegotiation, so that at least afterwards there will be room for a broader social debate about the proposal.
According to Most-Híd, the proposed amendments create unequal conditions for actors in culture and the creative industry. The party also objects that by completely excluding business enterprises, the legislation conveys the message that the culture of national minorities in Slovakia is viewed as incapable and unsuitable for creating economic values, and has only a narrowly interpreted representative function.
The party also considers the legislative procedure, which omitted the preliminary professional and social exchange of ideas, to be problematic. Minority organizations, the competent advisory body of the government, the committee responsible for national minorities and ethnic groups, and the government commissioner for minorities were not involved in the process. The parliamentary committee responsible for human rights and national minorities did not have a quorum when the proposal was discussed.
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